POSTAL REVENUE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 489, 23 April 1909, Page 6

POSTAL REVENUE.

INTERESTING SAVINGS .BANK RE- , :■•'■■■■ v.turns, ,; A return published in last night's Gazotto shows largo increases in the post-and telegraph rovenuo for the quarter ended March 31, as compared . with the... corresponding quarter of last year., In tho following excorpts tho figures for the first quarter of 1908 aro given in parentheses, and and ponco, aro omitted:—Total postal revenue, £152,623 (£112,035); total telegraph.revenue, £73,139 (£71,581); total post and telegraph, £225,763 (£183,616)' Tolophouo rovenuo, £9002 (£8832), is included in the telegraphic.- : . . Tho valub:-of the money-orders issued and paid during tho same two quarters was as follows:—lssued £593,902 (£510,181)"• niid £516,229 (£443,830). .' paid, "fe *2& «"*k%S .commission, £101,660 (£88,289); commission, £1455 (£l2/5); posta lnotes paid, £98,487 (£85,101). Savings bank.business in the first quarters of tho years 1909 and 1908 (in parentheses) compares as follows:—Deposits, . £2,486,462 (£2,542,188 ; withdrawals, £2 465 957 (£2,382,935); excess of deposits over withdrawals, £20,505 (£159,253).